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Those who prefer so, can transform their LMDE Squeeze "Testing" to LMDE Squeeze "Stable",by changing ALL repositories from testing to squeeze in their "sources.list" before Debian Squeezegoes Stable. And then automatically have an LMDE "LTS" edition.

Its easy keeping the system safe and updated by using Debian Security and Debian Backportsas additional repositories.

Would not this take the fun out of having a continuously rolling update? To each his own, but I think this would defeat the purpose and the beauty of LMDE. Where am I wrong on this? Just curious. I probably do not know enough so therefore I am dangerous.

jackmule wrote:Would not this take the fun out of having a continuously rolling update?

Every PC-minute downtime cost money. So, stability without crasches and surprisesis most preferrable at daily work work. Its another story at home.

Is still using own homebrewed Xandros (Stable & Backports). But without securityupdates for Etch, switching is necessary. With Testing freezed for bugsquashingand LMDE released with Squeeze base, Mint became topcandidate as replacement.

If I understood correctly LMDE also uses some nondebian repositories (main for example)?If you keep the debian packages stable is it possible that packages from "main" need newer software versions from debian repositories and as a result you don't get upgrade from "main"?

I can understand the idea of changing testing to squeeze but what about the linuxmint debian packages?Would there be a conflict with squeeze packages once squeeze is stable and testing changes from squeeze?I also agree that you could easily change from squeeze to testing without too many problems.

The Mint repository includes under 40 Mint specific packages (including themes and wallpapers)and over 80 Firefox and Thunderbird packages. You can prevent breaking Squeeze during upgradeby using "Default Upgrade" within Synaptic or "apt-get upgrade" within Console,

Doctore wrote:The Mint repository includes under 40 Mint specific packages (including themes and wallpapers)and over 80 Firefox and Thunderbird packages. You can prevent breaking Squeeze during upgradeby using "Default Upgrade" within Synaptic or "apt-get upgrade" within Console,

What is the entry to add Backports to "sources.list." I am not at my home computer so I am a little lost here. All of the other instructions are clear.

I have one computer at home that I have to use so I will probably be going to the squeeze stable route. If there is a floodgate in testing in the future, I cannot afford to be with a broken system. Thanks!

A "stabilized" LMDE uses debian squeeze. So, when Debian Squeeze will have been released, you may use "squeeze-backports" which IMO don't exist right now.Using lenny-backports on squeeze may break your system!

Thinkpad X220 with Samsung SSD running Xubuntu 13.04I'm getting old gladly -- I don't like to die young ...

This looks perfect for me. Debian speed and stability made Minty! What are the disadvantages?

Might it prevent you from getting updates to Mint stuff, Firefox and Thunderbird that depend on a newer version that is only in unstable? If so, is any of the Mint stuff likely to need security upgrades? The other two clearly do, but we can use Iceweasel and Icedove from Debian stable backports.

My suggestion: change that *before* you consider to install Google-chrome and/or the liquorix kernel (sid-repo!), or you will face some weird problems when you update the repos because there appear "liquorix.list.save" that of course can't be read and also a google-chrome.list.save in the sources.list.d. I couldn't sort out yet why that happens.hth